Question 1.

Review, determine and describe the current business/organisation computing resources and usage.

Wen is the owner of Clock Tower Cakes. It is a small business that sells cakes and other items to the public. They also sell wholesale to surrounding cafes and restaurants.

Clock Tower Cakes currently have 6 employees and 2 full time who are in charge in sales and deliveries. Currently the Sales and Services staff have a document book they use to record sales and invoices. This information is entered into the desktop computing software by the administration staff at the office.

She has found that when deliveries are being made customers often make further orders on the spot. She wants to be able enter this into the system immediately.

Clock Tower Cake's has a commercial kitchen attached where all produce is made and the administration part of the business is also carried out. The data is usually backed up on an external drive and locked in a safe at the Office.

The current needs of Clock Tower Cakes, is to proposed for implementing a Cloud based accounting system. Any training for the new system will have be done after business hours. Cloud- based accounting software offers the business to store and manage data, or maintain expensive computer hardware, in some cases all you need is mobile device with internet connectivity, making cloud accounting far cheaper than desktop-based solutions.

It is being recommended that MYOB is the ideal tool for the field in which the Clock Tower works and its needs.

what opportunities does the cloud base accounting into the business?